- my apologies for cross-posting -

Hey all,

tomorrow the RevisionSlider [1] will be available as a default feature for all users on all wikis. The RevisionSlider adds a slider view to the diff page so that you can easily move between revisions. The slider view is collapsed by default, and will load by clicking on it. It can also be turned off entirely in the user preferences. The RevisionSlider has been a default feature on German, Arabic and Hebrew Wikipedia for 6 months and a beta feature on all wikis for 8 months. In addition to the users of the default feature, the extension is used by more than 38K beta feature users [2] and we have spent the past months addressing the issues raised.

The feature fulfills a wish from the German Community’s Technical Wishlist [3], is inspired by DerHexer's revisionjumper gadget [4] and based on a prototype https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/RevisionSliderby the WMF's Community Tech Team https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech [5].

Thanks to everyone who tested RevisionSlider and gave valuable feedback to improve the feature! We hope that RevisionSlider will continue to serve all contributors well.

Lea (for WMDE's Technical Wishes team)

[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:RevisionSlider

[2] https://grafana.wikimedia.org/dashboard/db/mediawiki-revisionslider

[3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:DerHexer/revisionjumper

[5] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/RevisionSlider